Robin Stjernberg wins Melodifestivalen 2013

Posted 9 March 2013 at 21:56

Almost every of the ten participants in the Swedish final had been tipped to win the competition during the week of rehearsals that led to tonight's final.

In the end, the lucky act who gets the honour of representing Swedish on home ground at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö the 18th of May is Robin Stjernberg with the song You who got the highest number of points after the eleven international juries and the viewers cast their votes.

Robin had reached the final last week thanks to the second chance round. He comes from Hässleholm in Skåne, very near the host city for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, Malmö,

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This is the final ranking. Between brackets you'll find the the televoting points first and then the international jury ones. Winner in bold:

Robin Sternberg166 (75 + 91)

YOHIO 133 (103 + 30)

Ulrik Munther 126 (44 + 82)

Anton Ewald 108 (59 + 49)

Louise Hoffsten 85 (49 + 36)

Sean Banan 78 (41 + 37)

Ralf Gyllenhammar 73 (40 + 33)

David Lindgren 69 (12 + 57)

State Of Drama 68 (18 + 50)

Ravaillacz 40 (32 + 8)

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The participants:

In the order of appearance for the final, the following ten acts were competing to represent Sweden at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest:

We had special appearances from the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest presenters in Malmö Lydia Capolicchio and Harald Treutiger as well as the 2000 ones in Stockholm Anders Lundin and Kattis Ahlström along with Melodifestivalen 2013 presenters Danny Saucedo and Gina Dirawi and the forthcoming Eurovision presenter Petra Mede.

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The interval act featured performances from Swedish Eurovision winners Loreen and Carola. The international jury had members from eleven countries: Cyprus, France, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Croatia, Malta, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany and Ukraine.